Example sentences for: coffers

How can you use “coffers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The GOP-led Congress, already having earmarked all the country's general fund surpluses for the next two fiscal years, will likely take anywhere from $8 billion to $30 billion from Social Security coffers.

  • That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.

  • He was invited to involve his firm, my firm, in representing the tobacco industry as it began a negotiation in which it was prepared to pay an enormous, an unbelievable amount of money to various state coffers, which could be used for anti-smoking campaigns and all manner of such things.

  • The shake-up announced at China's Communist Party congress leads at the Los Angeles Times , and USA Today goes with the record surpluses accumulating in state coffers.

  • WP columnist Charles Krauthammer weighs in against the ever-widening search for what he calls "Holocaust guilt money" in the coffers of now-respectable businesses such as banks, insurance companies, and manufacturers, including American firms like Ford and GM.


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